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|a Begetting :
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|t Begetting --
|t Paradigms --
|t Cain --
|t Anti-natalism --
|t Harm --
|t The world --
|t Uncertainty --
|t Consent --
|t The ethics of creation --
|t For the good of the planet --
|t For the good of the child --
|t Begetting in the age of climate change --
|t The personal desire narrative --
|t The biological narrative --
|t The parental maturity narrative --
|t The romantic narrative --
|t The virtue narrative --
|t The entitlement narrative --
|t Reasons --
|t Genes --
|t Better reasons --
|t Love (for one's partner) --
|t Love (for the child) --
|t Wanting, having, hoping --
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|t Courage and virtue --
|t Meaning and regret --
|t Givenness --
|t Gratitude.
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|a Few assumptions, argues Mara van der Lugt, are so stagnant, so rigid, so deeply walled in as the assumption that the decision to have children is by default a good thing, that having children is one of the most elevated aspects of human activity and, indeed, of the human condition. This book is conceived as an open and reflective challenge to that assumption. The author argues that there are two questions in life that every person needs to answer for themselves. One is the question of religion. The other is the question of begetting, a term which she chooses deliberately to restore a sense of 'strangeness and magnitude' to the idea. What does it mean to bring a new creature into the world? Or rather what does it mean to decide to perform an act of creation? What does it mean to make the decision that life is worth living on behalf of a person who cannot be consulted? To ask this question is to interrogate one's own responsibility and commitments, morally, philosophically and personally. The question of begetting can never be purely one of preference or inclination, however we might wish it to be. This book is the author's attempt to raise some of these questions, if not fully to answer them. It is both a personal and philosophical exercise of filling out that moral background, in full awareness of the things that are at stake and not in judgment but out of concern and compassion both for creators and created, and for those who are not yet created and those who are not (or not yet) creators.
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